Comparison of the sample's demographic characteristics to the 2010 Census data of Japan suggests that, with exception of an overrepresentation of respondents who were homeowners and from larger households, the sample is relatively representative of the whole population.
It is interesting that our sample is relatively representative of the population being served.
The sample was relatively representative of the Norwegian population for sex, level of income, and education and was relatively balanced for characteristics of the respondents across the six versions of the survey (table 1).
To insure that the phylogenetic proportions of housekeeping gene sequences extracted from each sample were relatively representative of the sample as a whole, phylogenetic profiles were generated based on all sequences found within each environment (Materials and Methods).
The final 14 who attended were relatively representative of the cohorts: approximately two per cohorts, except for cohorts six and seven, who have just graduated, from which we had just one participant per cohort (more were invited, but were unable to attend).
It is likely that our Trust is relatively representative of other urban hospitals in deprived areas but generalizing from our data may overestimate the number of beds available in acute Trusts in more affluent areas where social factors are less of an issue in discharge planning.
While our results confirm previous reports demonstrating some variation in lobule complexity between breast quadrants [ 39], our data also support the work of others indicating that the use of a single tissue analysis is relatively representative of global tissue architecture [ 40, 55].
However, a study of self-selection in MoBa concluded that the survey was relatively representative for the total population of pregnant women in Norway [ 53], and that selective nonparticipation was more likely to affect prevalence estimates than exposure outcome associations.
However, the results of the significant association between severe maternal morbidity and PTSD were less likely to be affected because the sample was relatively representative in terms of major obstetric haemorrhage (the majority cases of severe maternal morbidity) and none of the indicators for demographic characteristics were likely to be acting as confounders from a statistical point of view.
A strength of this study is that the study sample was taken from the general population and can be considered relatively representative of the general Danish population.
